How Birmingham can help create 100,000 jobs and key ways to get young people into work were the headline topics at a major meeting on Wednesday 16th November.

The crucial issues were discussed at Be Birmingham’s ‘Succeeding Economically and Social Mobility’ summit, chaired by the Bishop of Birmingham, the Right Reverend David Urquhart and attended by over 150 delegates from the public, private, voluntary, faith and community sectors.

The city’s regeneration chief, Mark Barrow, revealed the details behind the Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership’s (LEP) commitment to creating 100,000 private sector jobs across the LEP area by 2020 in his keynote speech at the summit, held at the Saffron Centre in Highgate.